By Harold Pease, Ph. D.
Let us look at reality, TV (legacy) news is almost entirely controlled by the Deep State and has been for decades. These collectively blasted President Trump with 92% negative coverage during his first 100 days in office, Elon Musk 96%, Pete Hegeth 100% and Robert Kennedy Jr. 89%. The California legislature just shot down making sex trafficking of minors a felony. Lawyers just got Diddy off criminal charges of child trafficking. These outlets say little about the 350,000 missing children unaccounted for during the Joe Biden four years in office believed to be used in this country presently for sex or child labor slavery. Except for right of center news sources Epstein’s criminality would be mostly unreported.
Add to this reality a rogue criminal justice system under Biden, still in place, that weaponized targeting conservatives especially Catholics, pro-life demonstrators, and indicted hundreds expressing their First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly on January 6, 2021. Thereafter generating four fake indictments against Donald Trump to keep him from running for president again in 2024. And the present activist judges (all anti-Trump Democrats) ruling everything Trump does as unconstitutional until the Supreme Court finally recently ruled 8 to 0 that these activist coup judges had exceeded their authority—they’re rulings are limited to within their own districts only. Judges and Democrats are presently seen as protecting the criminals and defending the indefensible.
In this toxic environment can patriots realistically expect justice on the Epstein client list? We have not seen it on other issues. As with Diddy, sexual injustice to children would not be prosecuted by these judges anyway. Best place this issue on hold until after the mid-terms when justice can be more likely assured after the Constitutional removal of rogue judges.
Do we have the control needed to bring all to justice? No! The Deep State still controls the judges. When we tell the bad people, “We have nothing on you,” won’t they feel more safe and relaxed? “They have nothing on us therefore they won’t come after us.” First clue that Trump was trolling them was the memo had no date, no marking, no signature. Is this the right time to go after these people so they can escape the country or be set free by corrupt judges? Why telegraph our moves? “If we move without ability to provide consequence, they win.”
So Axis published, July 6, 2025-“Exclusive: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no ‘client list,’ died by suicide,” by Alex Isenstadt. Effectively there was no there there. This set both the Left and Right on fire against Trump. Was this insanity or brilliance? It defied the mass of existing evidence. Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced and is serving 20 years in prison essentially as his partner for the same crimes as Jeffrey Epstein. Her punishment, a “country club” prison.
This was expected. Days before Kash Patel and Dan Bongino had said jointly that they had read the previously created file (not of their making) and concluded that this was what it indeed said. This could have been what it said. Democrats have never gone after Epstein with much enthusiasm. Most who viewed this video noted both had uncomfortable postures while saying this. Was this a PSYOP then and now? Likely! Also days before, Elon Musk, in his supposed feud with Trump, had announced that Trump was on the list. And more recently that Steve Bannon also was on the list; all to bait Trump haters to get the Epstein list to destroy Trump.
If Trump were on the Epstein client list Democrats certainly would have released that information to stop Trump being president, Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020 and 2024. One little sentence, that could be proven, from that list would have ended Trump’s candidacy (X22 Report, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3681b, July 7, 2025, 31:13). Trump is not on the list and Musk knows it. Dems took the bait and even they are looking for and finding Epstein evidence.
The effect of all this, and Trump knew this, is that the Epstein file is getting more attention than it ever could in any other way had Trump just released it. The Left is demanding it more so because they believe Trump is hiding his own crimes. Now 67% of the people want it revealed. Trump is trolling the Left as never before to get maximum exposure to those listed.
Kash does not want the Deep State players to know they have it all. It is more likely they want them to believe that they have no idea where anything is (Ep. 3681b, July 7, 2025, 33:11). If they thought the FBI actually had the ‘videos of those who killed Epstein they would flee.’ Moves and counter moves. If a PSYOP criminals remain in place for justice later.
Trump is baiting the Democrats. If he just came out and said you were on Epstein Island so I am going to take you down, the optics or interest would not be that great. Trump will make the enemy do the work for him. All his enemies are now saying, we must prosecute these people, because they think Trump is backing off doing so. “And just like that the Dems/mainstream media are now clamoring for the Epstein files. We couldn’t get the Dems/mainstream media to talk about Epstein for 15+ years and now they are claiming Trump is the one covering everything. One thing that’s for certain the Dems and mainstream media are capitalizing on the moment in an attempt to divide Trump’s base and it is working.” Trump has forced the mainstream media and Democrats to talk about Epstein. If they think Trump is covering up something they will talk about it, otherwise silence (Ep. 3683b,July 9, 2025, 11:30). And whatever comes out of the files the Deep State will not be able to bury as before. Brilliant or insane?
Right on cue, “House Judiciary Committee ranking member, Jamie Raskin, along with 15 more of the 19 Democrats on the Committee demanded in a letter that Attorney General Pam Bondi release Epstein file documents, mentioning Trump.” Notice their real interest is in getting documents mentioning Trump—not paedophiles. Trump now has them begging to release what they had no real interest in releasing. Do you think the fake news would go with it otherwise? No!
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 829 `
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